Mandarins EPUB
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it.
These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused.
Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection.
Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."
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- Publisher:Steerforth Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781935744122
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Steerforth Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781935744122